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Actually, I don't know about the anime, but in the manga Ed's father created all of them.

There was this little piece from a Chinese Magazine a while ago, quite a spoiler, and it had kind of a family tree. It pointed out that Ed's Dad was the "father" or creator of six of the sins.

Also, how old is Greed in the manga, 130 years. I don't think they ever said as he was introduced in 6 and then was pretty much 7 except for Wrath ripping him apart.

For crying out loud, there is no conclusive proof Hoenheim is The Father. That piece you said is not from a magazine but was a piece of fanart. Someone just came up with their little make belief theory and cut out the frames from the manga to use in that little tree. Whether Hoenheim is The Father is still debateable. For all we know, The Father might be Hoenheim's dad or grandad or great-granddad or he might have made Pride who might be Hoenheim.

All the Homunculi in the manga excluding Wrath & Pride are at least 100 years old. Proof: Chapter 31 - Greed remarked that all of them still wear the same faces as he left 100 years ago.

ramen girl...where is she from ? (had to ask)
anyways...this is getting interesting, some odd guy created 6 of the 7 sins ? or 5 ? Anyways, rumored to be ed/al's father ? w00000
But wrath and pride are different?
btw : what is Hoenheim ?

i like ramen girl too , bring some ramen to me (isn't it food or drink or something...) ooo, from reading all this - are you telling me the manga and anime are like splitting and they aren't following each other ?

i like ramen girl too , bring some ramen to me (isn't it food or drink or something...) ooo, from reading all this - are you telling me the manga and anime are like splitting and they aren't following each other ?

Yes, the anime has been splitting since back in Vol 4 and continues to split farther and farther as they Bones modifies the story line more and more.

wait do the anime eps follow a chapter progression? and if so does ep 31 coincide with chp 31 of the manga? just curious thnx!

- Yondaime

No. The anime does not follow the manga episode-by-chapter.

The anime also took some content of the manga, adapted them, then shifted them in chronology (i.e the time which the events happened), e.g. the Train incident with Terrorist Bald was actually after Ed became a National Alchemist and was returning from Leore in the manga, in the anime it happened when he was going to Central to become a National Alchemist.

Some scenes were totally changed, e.g. Ed's qualification trial as National Alchemist, the manga's representation was just much way cooler in my book.

And now with the anime diverging heavily from the manga, the main story would not follow the manga though we might find small details being used e.g. Yoki's situation.

I am not sure of the quality of the translation I had; however, in ep 30 Greed says, "I heard that Envy and Pride and the others are after them [the Elric Brothers]." Meaning that Pride is not the kid because obviously he is not entangled with Envy at this point. So, Pride would have had to have been around before the kid showed up. ::Apologizes in advance if I misunderstood::

If you try to save her gender icon, it distinctly puts the name as female.gif.

So perhaps you could point out your official sources for Arakawa's gender so we could resolve this issue. (I too thought of Arakawa as male till I read the other articles and that profile site).

Hm. Well, that's news to me. That page doesn't say anything about it other than the female gif, so I'd be interested to see the other articles you mention.

Arakawa did work as an assistant to the Guu mangaka, who is a female using a male pseudonym. Arakawa's cow avatar looks male to me, but cows are female...

Things like this have always bugged me personally. If someone is using a male pseudonym, and you are talking about the pseudonymous persona and not necessarily the real person, what's wrong with using the male pronoun? What's wrong with calling James Tiptree, Jr. "him" instead of "her," especially since Alice Sheldon went through great pains to keep her real identity a secret for many years?

This also begs the question, how many shoujo mangaka out there are men using female pseudonyms? I would be surprised if the number is zero. I do know that some romance novels in the US (which all have female author bylines) are written by men using pseudonyms.

Hm. Well, that's news to me. That page doesn't say anything about it other than the female gif, so I'd be interested to see the other articles you mention.

Arakawa did work as an assistant to the Guu mangaka, who is a female using a male pseudonym. Arakawa's cow avatar looks male to me, but cows are female...

Yep and it's pretty well known that the females in Japan sometimes have the nicknames of "Ushi" (Cow), you don't find guys being called Ushi. But mangaseek is an accurate database.

A lot of the articles were in the blogs of Japanese viewers. Lots of them have expired by now But the general gist of them all were expressing shock that Arakawa-sensei is a woman. Note that the revelation of this (an award ceremony where Arakawa-sensei appeared in person, 小学館漫画賞 ) is supposedly in Early Apr 2004. In other words, it is a fairly recent revelation.

Besides the statement, the above link leads to another anime news page whose mangaka was honoured in that award as well. Arakawa was supposed to have received an award also. In the photo of a gathering (the bottom left of the 6 photos), the woman in a black suit in the front row leftmost is supposed to be Arakawa-sensei herself.

So pretty much, the Japanese audience are already getting aware of her gender.

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Originally Posted by Ookla The Mok

Things like this have always bugged me personally. If someone is using a male pseudonym, and you are talking about the pseudonymous persona and not necessarily the real person, what's wrong with using the male pronoun? What's wrong with calling James Tiptree, Jr. "him" instead of "her," especially since Alice Sheldon went through great pains to keep her real identity a secret for many years?

Well supposedly the fact is she is using a male pseudonym because the editor felt she won't make it big using her female name. So it's still her writing as a woman to the audience. So it would be more truthful and appropriate to address the mangaka as a she.

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Originally Posted by Ookla The Mok

This also begs the question, how many shoujo mangaka out there are men using female pseudonyms? I would be surprised if the number is zero. I do know that some romance novels in the US (which all have female author bylines) are written by men using pseudonyms.

Its likely they would never come out openly revealing that unless they are handsome guys in real life. Girls want their idols realised, not destroyed. You should have seen the reaction of some of the fangirls on the bbs's when they realised Arakawa is a 'she'. Some accepted girl power. Some just went disappointed because they cannot father the child of the FMA creater

Last edited by Yebyosh; 2004-05-09 at 08:40.
Reason: Corrected info on Arakawa's presence at the award ceremony

Its likely they would never come out openly revealing that unless they are handsome guys in real life. Girls want their idols realised, not destroyed. You should have seen the reaction of some of the fangirls on the bbs's when they realised Arakawa is a 'she'. Some accepted girl power. Some just went disappointed because they cannot father the child of the FMA creater